antiphrase
metaphor
equivocal
adverb
opposite word
antonym
opposite
vocable
transferred sense
catachresis
sense
connotation
loanshift
adnominal
ancestor
notional opposite
signification
plesionym
polysemant
polysemantic word
polysemous word
figure of speech
etymon
false friend
root
define
locution
term
phrasal
near-synonym
nominalization
synonym
metalinguistic
logomachize
cliché
literally
grandiloquism
pseudo-loan
bless you
twist
counterdefinition
protologism
loosely
dictionary definition
parasynonym
wrench
attributive
misdefine
gainword
skunked term
agnonym
eggcorn
definiendum
Humpty Dumpty word
abbreviature
pronoun
determinatum
redefine
homograph
adequation
plerematic
semantics
antonymous
hard word
proverbial
Britishism
semordnilap
derivative
definiens
homonym
hypercorrect
prenominal
accidental gap
adjective
object language
poecilonym
abbreviation
confusable
pseudo-anglicism
cum
subsense
dysphemism
reborrowing
autoantonym
implication
phonemic
import
nonterm
verbalism
shifter
lexical definition
significance
capitonym
like it's going out of fashion

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